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W. B. WOODMAN.

COMBINED GORKSGREWAND KEY RING.

Patented Apr. 8, 1884.

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WILBER B. WOODMAN, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

COMBINED CORKSCREW AND KEY-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,661, dated April 8, 1884.

Application filed November 24, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TVILBER B. WooDMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful lmprovementsin Combined Corkscrews and Key-Rings, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a combined keyring and corkscrew; and it consists, essentially, in a corkscrew and key-ring made from a single piece of wire. A

l have usually embodied the invention in a convenient form to be carried in the pocket, and have applied a removable sheath over the screw.

The invention will be more fully understood from the description hereinafter presented,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which the figure illustrates the device incorporating the elements of the invention.

One extremity of the wire of which the device is formed is bent into a worm or screw, A, from the upper end of which the wire is bent to describe a little more than a halfcircle, at which time it is returned upon itself to the upper end of the worm, whence it is carried in the line of a circle toward and slightly beyond the end of the half-circle B first formed, being then folded against itself and returned to the upper end of the worm,

end of the half-circle B is bent slightly down- The tip ward, and that of the half-circle D is turned in a similar manner upward, the purpose of this formation being to facilitate the insertion on and withdrawal from the ring-handle of the keys.

The handle described not only serves to effectually hold keys, but is durable and admirably adapted to withstand the treatment to which it must be subjected when the corkscrew is in use.

The sheath (1 (indicated in section) is a metallic cylinder closely fitting over the screw A, and adapted to be inserted thereon and witl1- drawn therefrom at will.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A corkscrew the handle of which constitutes a keyring, substantially as set forth.

2. A corkscrew the handle of which consists of two semicircular parts. which may be sprung apart sufficiently to admit or permit the withdrawal of a key, substantially as set forth.

3. The screw A, having a handle composed of the parts B D, as described, the whole being formed from a single piece of wire, substantially as described.

4. A screw, A, having a handle composed of the folded parts 13 D, the free ends of which are turned from each other, the whole being formed, substantially as described, from a single piece of wire.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 1st day of November, A. D. 1883.

WILBER B. WOODMAN.

Witnesses:

CHAS. G. GILL, HERMAN Gusrrow. 

